What is Kelvin Helmholtz?
Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble ocean waves rolling at equal intervals and are one of the rare types. It is believed that these clouds with their mesmerizing appearance inspired the swirls we see in Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night." So, how does this type of cloud form? They arise when two different layers of air in our atmosphere move at different speeds and occur when there is a strong vertical shear between the two air currents, causing the winds to blow faster at upper levels than at lower levels.
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The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...
A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...
A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...
Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...
An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...
A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.
The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...
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